New Hungarian Government OMGs All Gov Sites

An anonymous reader writes "The new Hungarian government chose to replace the home pages with a 'disclaimer' page on several governmental websites such as ministries or the Foreign Office. The title and the main message is 'OMG,' which is followed by an explanation that the inherited websites 'lack any kind of uniform structure' and this is 'unworthy of Hungary.' Today is the takeover day in most ministries for the new administration."

Comments

Re:Talk about a stupid pissing contest

[SharpFang]

Are you a hungarian?
Can you authoritatively say the old sites did work?

Outdated information with no hint that it is outdated is worse than none at all.
Sinkhole email address, where letters from people are never read, placed next to a snailmail address is worse than no email at all, just snailmail.
Information, from which most -just- got out of date (because it's about the government, and the government just changed) needs to be changed ASAP. If there are no uniform procedures what and where needs to be changed, it's better to disable anything that is suspected of being out of date than allow the old (mis)information stay online.
If a website is in violation of laws - say, data retention laws, it should not be left to perpetrate the violation until corrective mechanisms are in place.

Sometimes no news is good news...